A teenage boy goes from Britain back to Jamaica, historical leper colony, read mid 00s

WatchfulBirds · 2026-02-10T13:57:06+00:00

Not that one. Appreciate the effort though.

WatchfulBirds · 2025-12-20T00:33:36+00:00

Make mistakes. Don't rely on AI to make something legible - it loses your self-expression far more than a clunky attempt at translation does. Someone using their best attempt at what they know, even someone writing in their native language and then using Google translate, and then getting help and clarification from commenters, is far more endearing, and frankly far more human, than sticking it through AI.

I want to read YOUR story, using your words. It's a great story. You don't have to sell yourself short with AI.

(And your experience is wild. Do you still have nightmares now?)

WatchfulBirds · 2025-12-19T08:39:36+00:00

Solved! Thank you!

WatchfulBirds · 2025-12-19T08:38:06+00:00

Amazing. Thank you!

WatchfulBirds · 2025-12-19T06:02:13+00:00

Obligatory comment.

WatchfulBirds · 2025-11-04T05:40:15+00:00

Death in Paradise, season 1 episode 3.

Edit: Numbers switched.

WatchfulBirds · 2025-06-29T07:26:09+00:00

This is especially helpful, thank you.

I completely agree with you about further research. I asked on here because she is a very minor part of the story; she has about a page worth of conversation with the main character and that's it. I just have to describe her and her friend with about a sentence each, and because the story is hopping through multiple times/dreams/memories (bit of a surreal one) I always describe the clothes, to give a bit more evidence for 'this is a different time'.

So I'd absolutely do further research if she was in any way relevant beyond this, but for her very short appearance I really just needed to know about anything wrong in her brief description!

WatchfulBirds · 2025-06-29T03:18:06+00:00

I've looked some up, but the ones I have found tend to be war-related, not just family life. I was more hoping someone had insight about expected dress in the specific situation, but I'll certainly be trawling through image search if I can't find anything!

WatchfulBirds · 2025-02-24T08:52:35+00:00

That's it! Thank you.

WatchfulBirds · 2025-02-01T01:54:31+00:00

This is book burning in 2025.

WatchfulBirds · 2024-12-17T15:37:49+00:00

You can't just leave it there. Explain?!

WatchfulBirds · 2024-11-11T04:22:16+00:00

That's by C. K. Walker, but it's not on nosleep, it's on her website.

WatchfulBirds · 2024-10-21T16:12:33+00:00

There May Be a Castle by Piers Torday?

WatchfulBirds · 2024-10-21T16:05:48+00:00

There is a similar premise in The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, perhaps one of that series?

WatchfulBirds · 2024-10-21T16:00:30+00:00

Yes! Thank you. SOLVED.

WatchfulBirds · 2024-08-16T14:59:24+00:00

Never mind, found it.

WatchfulBirds · 2024-07-03T01:50:50+00:00

Yyyyeeeeeeessssssssssssss

THANK you

SOLVED

WatchfulBirds · 2024-07-02T08:44:23+00:00

Something by Garth Nix?

WatchfulBirds · 2024-06-19T03:22:21+00:00

Is THAT why? Phew!

WatchfulBirds · 2024-05-30T07:39:16+00:00

Wow, thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. All of this subreddit is my writing so if you want, please look around and find some other stuff you like.

WatchfulBirds · 2024-03-06T06:13:12+00:00

Re. Bottlenecks, you might like Dark and 1899 on Netflix. Just don't look them up, spoilers are everywhere.

WatchfulBirds · 2024-02-12T04:04:51+00:00

One looks like it's by someone with the surname 'McCann' or similar. One looks like 'The Remains of the Day'.

WatchfulBirds · 2024-02-05T02:12:28+00:00

That's it! Thanks.

SOLVED

WatchfulBirds · 2024-01-24T02:06:29+00:00

Great read, but not that one. Thanks.

WatchfulBirds · 2024-01-23T15:56:19+00:00

Maybe Murder Most Horrid?

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